place: Place

In mdsumner/where: Encapsulate Definition of Location

Place

Description

Family

Usage

place(x, dimension = 512L, family = "laea", ...)

## S3 method for class 'character'
place(x, dimension = 512L, family = "laea", ...)

Arguments

x	place name (a city)
dimension	number of pixels per margin (length one and aspect ratio is automatic)
family	projection family 'laea' default, or an actual projection string
...	other arguments passed to where

Details

Note that if you give a longlat family, you should give a wh to where in degrees (we might fix)

Value

list of extent, dimension, projection

Examples

place("Hobart")
place("Bathurst", wh = c(10000, 15000))
if(requireNamespace("tidygeocoder")) place("Downtown Juneau, Juneau, AK, USA")

mdsumner/where documentation built on Aug. 27, 2023, 6:54 a.m.